A Canada AM for the 21st century

TORONTO – Tape-delayed news and current affairs just doesn’t cut it in 2008, even if it’s only a couple of hours old, CTV’s president of news and current affairs, Bob Hurst, told Cartt.ca Wednesday. That was the thinking behind the broadcaster’s announcement that Canada AM, the top morning program in the country, will expand to six hours and go live, coast to coast as of January 28th, adding an anchor desk in Vancouver. This is the first time a national North American morning show on a conventional network will be live across all time zones. Not even the Today Show...